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Re:Hello, GitHub by jodrellblank on Monday June 04, 2018 @07:14PM (#17233502)
Microsoft has you use a Microsoft account to sign into Windows itself; I think they will merge Github in somehow. They might be trying to win over developers, but they'll want to cross-sell to MS ecosystem developers as well.

Starting with "any existing Microsoft account is now a valid Github login". Then maybe "you can more easily use VS (or VS Code) with Github and deploy to Azure, if you use a Microsoft account with Github" and "you can merge your Github account into your Microsoft account". Then "all new accounts on Github are Microsoft accounts, you can no longer make a separate one".

Whether they go all the way to "there's no such thing as a separate Github account anymore", not soon, but probably one day - they've been trying to centralize accounts between all their services for years and years, haven't they?

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Re:Hello, GitHub by scarface74 on Monday June 04, 2018 @09:34PM (#17234274)
It's already trivial to host on GitHub and deploy on Azure using Visual Studio Team Services - in your deployment pipeline you choose github as your source repository instead of the built in git repo that's part of VSTS. It works using web hooks just like every other CI/CD tool.
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Re:Hello, GitHub by ocdtrekkie on Monday June 04, 2018 @07:29PM (#17233583)
Their "for years and years" strategy though has not been working.
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